Quotes About Identity

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

When playing football became a job, it lost its luster for me.

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

In luxury, ubiquity will kill you - it means you're not really luxury anymore.

I'm a luxury brand.

I'd be lying if I didn't say I pretended to be Carrie Bradshaw while I wrote from my apartment.

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.

A lot of my characters are people who are, in essence, lying to themselves. They present one thing, when in reality they're another thing. Maybe they're not as tough or as cool as they want to be.

When you play a show and you see people singing your lyrics back to, you feel as if they do know you.

I'm in a generation where MAC is the reigning brand for a lot of women - black, white, and other.

I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now.

It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.

I'm not a machine.

I'm not a hit machine.

I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.

You can't turn individual human beings into baby-making machines.

Trying to erase 53 years of being a macho aggressive guy to trying to be a woman, and this is greatest challenge of my life.

I don't gotta walk around like Mr. Macho Man.

I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.

I'm not a model. I don't really think much about how I look. If I did, I'd go mad.

I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

I always liked the 'Mad Men' philosophy where people don't really change.